Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement Book Detail/ Review :

Richard Brookhiser wrote his first cover story for National Review at age fourteen, and became the magazine�s youngest senior editor at twenty-three. William F. Buckley Jr. was Brookhiser�s mentor, hero, and admirer; within a year of Brookhiser�s arrival at the magazine, Buckley tapped him as his successor as editor-in-chief. But without warning, the relation ship soured�o

Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education Book Detail/ Review :

Dont talk to strangers is the advice long given to children by parents of all classes and races. Today it has blossomed into a fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interracial distrust, personal and political alienation, and a profound suspicion of others. In this powerful and eloquent essay, Danielle Allen, a 2002 MacArthur Fellow, takes this maxim back t

This study serves as a testimony to Liverpools great but forgotten early Black community. It tells the story of people whose lives may have seemed mundane, but whose daily struggles were heroic in a difficult period for Black people.

The First Emperor: Caesar Augustus And The Triumph Of Rome Book Detail/ Review :

He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome�s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. Yet, despite Augustus�s accomplishments, very few biographers have concent

Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community Book Detail/ Review :

Strawberry Days tells the vivid and moving tale of the creation and destruction of a Japanese immigrant community. Before World War II, Bellevue, the now-booming edge city on the outskirts of Seattle, was a prosperous farm town renowned for its strawberries. Many of its farmers were recent Japanese immigrants who, despite being rejected by white society, were able to mak

Eminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France Book Detail/ Review :

Chief minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century, and the force behind the nations rise as a European power. Among the first statesmen to clearly understand the necessity of a balance of powers, he was one of the early realist politicians, practicing in the wake of Niccolo Machiavelli. Truly larger than lif

Magicians of the Gods: The forgotten wisdom of earths lost civilisation - the sequel to Fingerprints of the Gods Book Detail/ Review :

Graham Hancocks multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earths lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with the sequel to his seminal work filled with completely new, scientific and archaeological evidence, which has only recent

Updated to include the findings of archaeological investigation over the century, it serves to lift the veil that shrouded the pre-history of the Germanic peoples and the process of their expansion over central Europe.

Prior to gaining international renown for his definitive biography of Che Guevara and first-hand reporting on the war in Iraq for the New Yorker, Jon Lee Anderson wrote Guerrillas, a pioneering account of five diverse insurgent movements around the world?the mujahedin of Afghanistan, the FMLN of El Salvador, the Karen of Burma, the Polisario of Western Sahara, and a group